Calico ghost town california

Calico Ghost Town is a Community Park in Yermo. Plan your road trip to Calico Ghost Town in CA with Roadtrippers.

Calico Ghost Town

Calico Ghost Town. My dad loved this place and had a fascination with ghost towns and old mines. We explored many an old mine shaft in my youth.

Calico Ghost Town, California

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Calico is an Old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver lost its value in the mid-1890s, Calico lost its population. The miners packed up, loaded their mules and moved away abandoning the town that once gave them a good living. It became a "ghost town." Today Calico is part of the San Bernardino County Regional Parks system visited by…

I don’t know why, but I have always been oddly obsessed with ghost towns and always seize the opportunity to visit a new one when given the chance. Recently, on the way home from Las Vegas we decided to finally pull off the freeway and travel the three mile

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All You Need to Know About A Day Trip To Calico Ghost TownIf you want to do something different and adventurous, take a day trip to Calico Ghost Town located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. At Calico Ghost Town, you and your kids will be amazed by the scenery, the old structures, and the mining sites. Calico Ghost Town was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park. At its peak, Calico was at the heart…

Calico Ghost Town makes for the ideal destination for history buffs, outdoor adventurers, shopping enthusiasts, and families alike!

One town was abandoned while one lives on. Both Calico and Daggett were founded in the early 1880s, part of a silver boom in this part of California’s Mojave Desert. And yet, only a few decades later, one - Calico - had been abandoned, while Daggett lives on to this day. Why? What can we

Photos of Calico Ghost Town Regional Park: Schoolhouse, at the north edge of town, by the entrance to Wall Street Canyon

Calico Ghost Town, lots of childhood memories here.

Calico Ghost Town, Nevada

Welcome To California’s Legendary Ghost Town! If you’ve been following me you know that I love ghost towns! There are so many scattered around the American West, but there is one just 90 minutes fr…

Discover Calico Ghost Town in Yermo, California. A desert ghost town that once was home to over 1200 silver mining families for 12 years before it was abandoned. How to

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